The full Fifth Circuit declined to reconsider a panel decision to back a National Labor Relations Board order requiring Nexstar to start bargaining with a newly installed Communications Workers of America affi... (more story)

A D.C. Circuit panel based its decision to uphold Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris' firing on a mischaracterization of the agency, Harris argued Friday to the full D.C. Circuit, asking the en... (more story)

Two dozen labor law professors have joined California and the Teamsters in federal court to defend a state law expanding its labor board's powers, saying the National Labor Relations Act shouldn't preempt the ... (more story)

A Nevada federal judge Thursday froze a proposed class action accusing Delta Air Lines Inc. of shorting married pensioners on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts, giving the airline and the ... (more story)

A Michigan healthcare staffing company violated federal labor law by requiring its phlebotomists to sign employment agreements containing overly broad and restrictive provisions, a National Labor Relations Boa... (more story)

A Second Circuit panel vacated a $100,000 charging lien awarded to an attorney who represented a man who sued Marriott International Inc. for race-based harassment, agreeing that the lawyer was fired without c... (more story)

The Eleventh Circuit signaled it may be willing to change its precedent to make it easier for federal benefits lawsuits to get to the courthouse door, while the Second Circuit shut down a challenge to a union ... (more story)

The Ninth Circuit rejected an ex-Honeywell engineer's challenge to her firing after voicing concerns about avionic software that was part of a Boeing defense contract, finding any potential fraud to the govern... (more story)

The Eleventh Circuit backed the dismissal Monday of a Miami-Dade County worker's disability bias suit claiming she was fired from its animal services division after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, ruling s... (more story)

The U.S. Supreme Court declined an invitation Monday from Cook County, Illinois, to review a Seventh Circuit ruling that said a former corrections officer can seek back pay after winning a disability discrimination verdict.

A Burger King franchisee can access female employees' medical and psychological records in a sexual harassment case from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a Kansas federal magistrate judge rule... (more story)

A healthcare provider with multiple clinics in Florida will pay $64,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found reasonable cause to conclude that the company fired a worker ove... (more story)

Wells Fargo wants to block the deposition of its chief financial officer in a senior finance manager's disability bias lawsuit, saying he has no personal knowledge of the claims underpinning her allegations an... (more story)

PepsiCo will pay $270,000 to end suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging it fired a blind call center employee after refusing to find a screen-reading tool compatible with its softwar... (more story)

A former engineer for BAE Systems did not prove that he engaged in protected activity in his suit claiming that the company fired him after raising concerns about his overtime pay, a Maryland federal jury found Friday.

A Hawaii federal judge has refused to toss most of a proposed class and collective action accusing a Waldorf Astoria resort of misclassifying spa workers, allowing claims over tips, deductions and seniority gu... (more story)

A Washington federal judge tossed a proposed class action accusing Delta Air Lines of understaffing that forced workers to miss meal and rest breaks, ruling on Monday that the plaintiff's "bare-bones allegatio... (more story)

An employee for Japanese retailer Muji urged a New York federal court not to throw out her proposed class and collective wage action, saying that paying manual workers biweekly instead of weekly violates state... (more story)

Amazon's paid personal time policy clearly states that the 10 hours employees receive vest in January or on the date of hire, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled, affirming a California federal court's ruling that the... (more story)

A closely divided Michigan Supreme Court on Friday let stand a lower appellate court holding that a nonprofit's legal challenge to a state policy denying workers' compensation pay to unauthorized immigrants wa... (more story)

A former driver for an Atlanta-area FedEx delivery contractor has hit the company with a proposed collective action in Georgia federal court, accusing the firm of paying its drivers what amounted to a flat wag... (more story)